I wrote an application a while back and have been maintaining it for a while now, but it’s gotten to the point where there’s several major new features to be added, a ton of changes that need made, and I know quite a few things I could do better, so I’m starting a rewrite of the entire program (using bits and pieces from original).
My question is, what do you do with SVN at this point? Should I put the new version somewhere else, or should I delete the files I no longer need, add the new files, and just treat it like normal development in SVN?
How have you handled this in the past?
If you can refactor incrementally, do it; it’s both the fastest and allows you to have working version all the way. Otherwise… will the old version continue to be developed/supported? If so, branch it. If not, tag it and continue commiting to the head. Or, if your new project is really a completely new project (for example same app but completely different technology and most of the old files removed), commit a new project to repository.